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title: 'Social deduction, roles and performance'
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  Participants discuss evidence, interpret statements and influence others’
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  - id: source-92ca9b88b95a0bee
    title: Among Us
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    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: 'Player roles, persuasion and deception'
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      Participants discuss evidence, interpret statements and influence others’
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      width: 1440
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      game: Among Us
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        Among Us: discussion and voting; voice communication may use an external
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        Among Us: discussion and voting; voice communication may use an external
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          label: Public messages let players compare participants’ claims
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      - >-
        Distinguish in-game deception from violations of agreed communication
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      - title: Among Us
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# Social deduction, roles and performance

id: voice-audio--family-26
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/voice-audio--family-26
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/voice-audio--family-26/

Participants discuss evidence, interpret statements and influence others’ decisions within assigned game roles.

## At a glance

![Among Us: discussion and voting; voice communication may use an external channel](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/broad-among-us-05.webp)

[Among Us](https://store.steampowered.com/app/945360/) · © Innersloth / Innersloth. All rights reserved.

1. Public messages let players compare participants’ claims

- Distinguish in-game deception from violations of agreed communication rules.

- [Among Us](https://store.steampowered.com/app/945360/)

## How it works

Interpret people's statements and influence decisions within game roles.

## Variants

### Social deduction

<a id="family-26-branch-1"></a>

- Identify a hidden role through actions and conversation content. <a id="family-26-branch-1-variant-1"></a>
- Defend an account of events before a group. <a id="family-26-branch-1-variant-2"></a>
- Agree on a vote or shared decision. <a id="family-26-branch-1-variant-3"></a>
- Convince others of a false account while maintaining a consistent cover story. <a id="family-26-branch-1-variant-4"></a>

### Roleplay speech

<a id="family-26-branch-2"></a>

- Speak as a character with specified goals. <a id="family-26-branch-2-variant-1"></a>
- Improvise a scene within role constraints. <a id="family-26-branch-2-variant-2"></a>
- Continue a shared story while incorporating others' contributions. <a id="family-26-branch-2-variant-3"></a>
- Achieve a secret objective through dialogue and interaction. <a id="family-26-branch-2-variant-4"></a>

### Performing for an audience

<a id="family-26-branch-3"></a>

- Explain a concept the group must guess. <a id="family-26-branch-3-variant-1"></a>
- Portray a scene or object using only sounds. <a id="family-26-branch-3-variant-2"></a>
- Perform an argument, story or musical fragment. <a id="family-26-branch-3-variant-3"></a>
- Judge another performance against agreed game criteria. <a id="family-26-branch-3-variant-4"></a>

## Context and limits

A working design-space map: 27 families, 81 branches and 324 variants. Voice control, audio-based play and communication can combine or exist separately. Released-game examples support particular techniques; supplementary combinations are design proposals.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original taxonomy adapted from user-selected design discussions; linked sources support specific examples, not the whole classification.

- [Among Us](https://store.steampowered.com/app/945360/) (id: source-92ca9b88b95a0bee)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors